Popularity of Urdu Poetry

Urdu poetry or most commonly known as shayari is very popular in the Pak-indo sub-continent. Reading poetry is a common hobby of number of people around the world and every language has its own poets. Similarly when it comes to Urdu language there were number of poets who were known as legends of their times.

Shayari is liked by people who are gifted with some special artistic aesthetic sense. Mostly the poets are well read and know the language structure better than others. You will come across many people who even answer others with the reference to some good inspirational poetry.

But it is very important to quote only those verses that are really related with the conversation. Its popularity can be judged that thousands of books are published by poets and are bought by people all over the country.There are different types of Urdu shayari and the most popular is 2 lines shayariabout love, sad, romantic and friendship poetry. When youngsters fell in love then they search for poetry relating to their relationship and then enjoy it. They even use it for sending text messages to their beloved. Some of them who are more creative use the poetry verses in the greeting cards and love letters.

When people are sad or in a depressed mood then Urdu poetry or shayari have soothing effect on their mood and they read it for that purpose. Shayari is mostly popular in the educated class because of the core language that is used in it.